I'd also end on tears. And I think the lines are too short. I'd try doubling
them up:
I had breakfast with Wallace Stevens
and he said, Would you please pass
the pineapple? I put down my coffee cup
and said, Come on, you can do better
than that. It's years past the time for tears.
I met a wise man for lunch, who showed me
the nude sentence. He said, The upshot
of it is, the conflab is in the context.
It's years past the time for tears.
The barber said, Well, Walter says, No poem is
intended for the reader, no picture for
the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
It's years past the time for tears.
==
Or something like that.
jd
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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